Anyone having fun with ESFs?

[phungus]

Anyone still having fun flying ESFs? What server are you playing on and what do you do to stay engaged in the game and enjoy yourself?

Took a week break and tried to play again and just kept running into flak everywhere, lost my two ESFs in short order to Burster MAXes, one of which of course was invulnerable behind his spawn shields, can't even dogfight with other ESFs without getting killed by burster MAXes from god knows where.

I'm actually pretty serious here, not just trying to complain/whine. How are people still having fun flying these things, what are you guys doing, and where are you doing it? I can't figure out how to do anything but get shot by omnipresent flak and I really just don't find that experience engaging.